Hausa language

Hausa is a language primarily spoken in northern Nigeria as well as in Niger and some other parts of West Africa.

It is written in boko, a Latin-alphabet based writing system. In the past, and to some degree still today, an Arabic-based system called ajami was used.

Here are links to Wikipedia articles on:

• the Hausa people
• the Hausa language

Here are links to resources on Hausa language and ICT:

• Hausa charsets and keyboards (message board begun in 2001)
• PanAfrican Localisation page on Hausa